season 2008|09

Dramma per musica in three acts (1735)
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Libretto adapted from the play GINEVRA, PRINCIPESSA DI SCOZIA by Antonio Salvi
Performed in Italien with German surtitles
Conductor: Christohpe Rousset
Director & Set: Lukas Hemleb
with Caitlin Hulcup, Danielle de Niese, etc.

Opera in three acts (1951)
Music by Igor Strawinski
Libretto by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman
Performed in English with German surtitles
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Director: Martin Kusej
with Toby Spence, Alastair Miles, etc.

A bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes in two acts (1924)
Music and Libretto by Richard Strauss
Performed in German
Conductor: Kirill Petrenko
Director: Christof Loy
with Bo Skovhus, Carola Glaser, etc.

Dramma per musica in three acts, HWV 27 (1730)
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Adapted from the Libretto by Silvio Stampiglia
Performed in Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Director: Pierre Audi
with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, etc.

Opera seria in three acts (1770)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi
Based on the play by Jean Baptiste Racine
Performed in Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Director: Robert Carsen
with Bruce Ford, Patricia Petibon, etc.